Start Me Up - Paperback

Edmunds, Jeannie: - Jeannie Edmunds has been an advisor and mentor to startup companies since 2011. After growing up in a small town in Virginia, at 17 she left to attend the University of Texas at Austin, then traveled extensively as a writer, producer, director and editor. She spent decades in radio, TV, publishing, documentaries, and infomercials. Jeannie was the first producer of the Larry King Show on Mutual Radio Network in the 1970s. In the 80s she produced the Tomorrow show on NBC, followed by the CBS Morning News, Face the Nation, and Nightwatch, She also was Director of The Global Library Project for the LIbrary of Congress, developing documentaries about special items in the collections. As an independent producer she and a partner co-wrote, produced, and directed a documentary with Gene Roddenberry, creator of Star Trek. In the 90s she edited Healthy Living Magazine and created and launched Natural Health Retailer magazine. She has her first and only child at age 45, and homeschooled her for four years. Then her world was rocked by a family members' addiction, and death of her husband. But her world changed again when, a year after being widowed, she found new love via a dating app...in her 60s. Jeannie has started up and started over so many times in her life that when she set out to write a memoir, she wanted to encourage and inspire others to be fearless, to recognize a good opportunity, and to live life "like a startup: " Recognize that failure happens to everyone, surprises are not always welcome, but lessons can be learned and applied to create a successful and happy life, whether you're famous or not. She has published articles in the Washington Post and LA Times as Jeanne Apostol, and in other publications as Jeanne Ringe.